Re: io:lines() and \0

On Feb 21, 2014, at 13:52 , Dirk Laurie wrote:

2014-02-21 14:41 GMT+02:00 René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>:

I do not remember being among the group of "all" that want to
cover a data corruption bug with a change of the manual, … :-/

This is not a bug. It is an implementation detail, which you were
the first to report; thanks for that.

Apparently other had the same problem earlier:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-01/msg00641.html

And the underlying C function does work, ...

The developers have responded
by making the manual explicit on what text mode means in Lua.

And your laptop vendor tells you just not to set that EFI NVRAM

variable if you do not want to brick your PC, right? It is written in

the manual addendum, … oh and btw, by setting that your warranty

is now voided.

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